A short, clear-sighted and unsentimental masterpiece about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- Mark Damazer * New Statesman * This is a book designed to be taken out into the world... Patient, cogent and an exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence. Read, learn and take heart * Guardian * A bloodless victory over fanaticism * The Times * Nobody has chronicled modern Israel more faithfully than Amos Oz, and these bleak vignettes of village life in a country riddled with anxiety find him at his unsparing best -- Sally Cousins * Sunday Telegraph * Amos Oz is the voice of sanity coming out of confusion -- Nadine Gordimer